DGES Projects

MAGIC-DML: MAGIC-DML is a new Swedish-UK-US-Norwegian-German project that will look at past vertical ice thicknesses in the Dronning Maud Land (DML) area of Antarctica.

MAGIC-DML stands for Mapping/Measuring/Modelling Antarctic Geomorphology and Ice-elevation Change in Dronning Maud Land (DML). We have assembled a major international team who will travel to Dronning Maud Land in 2015/16 to undertake fieldwork, with full logistical support from the Swedish Polar Secretariat (http://www.polar.se/en/expedition/magic-dml).

Current PhD Students

Biography

Neil Glasser joined IGES in April 1999 as a Lecturer and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002, Reader in 2004 and Professor in 2006. In 2006-2007 he was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. He has twice been a member of the NERC Peer Review College (2005-2008 and 2011-present) and was a member of the Steering Committee for the NERC Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis Facility (2007-2013).

Neil also serves as an editor of the Journal of Glaciology and Quaternary Science Reviews. Recent research papers include contributions on using glacial erosional landforms to reconstruct former ice sheets, reconstructing patterns of meltwater flow in former ice sheets and the role of structural glaciology in debris entrainment, deposition and landform development. He is currently working on large data sets concerned with Quaternary glaciations in southern South America and the response of Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves to recent climate change.

Pfeffer, W.T. and 19 others including Glasser, N.F. as part of the Randolph Consortium (2014). The Randolph Glacier Inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers.Journal of Glaciology 60(221), 537-552.